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If we all exist in a simulation, what will happen once we start running out of RAM? (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Assuming our simulation is not designed to auto-scale (and our Admins don’t know how to download more RAM), what kind of side effects could we see in the world if the underlying system hosting our simulation began running out of resources?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We can see that already when something approaches the speed of light: time slows down for it.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This simplification horribly misunderstands what time-dilation is, and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

My vm is running out of ram.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have a running theory that that's also what's going on with quantum physics, because I understand it so poorly that it just seems like nonsense to me. So in my head, I see it as us getting into some sort of source code we're not supposed to see, and on the other side some programmers are going "fuck I don't know, just make it be both things at once!" and making it up on the fly.